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| author | Christopher Rogers <slaxemulator@gmail.com> |
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| date | Sat Feb 26 12:17:18 2011 +0000 (2011-02-26) |
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1 ====== Virtualbox ======
3 ===== SliTaz GNU/Linux with VirtualBox =====
5 You can now play with SliTaz GNU/Linux on Windows with VirtualBox.
6 Required:
8 * [[http://virtualbox.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/slitaz-gnulinux-is-here/|SliTaz GNU/Linux Image]], the virtual machine.
9 * [[http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads|Oracle VirtualBox]] software, binaries for Windows.
10 * [[http://www.7-zip.org/fr/download.html|7-Zip]], needed to decompress the file.
12 ===== Step 1 - Downloads and installation. =====
14 * Download and install 7-Zip - necessary to decompress the files.
15 * Download and install the Oracle VitualBox software.
16 * Download and decompress the virtual machine somewhere on your local hard drive.
18 ===== Step 2 - Play the virtual machine. =====
20 Before running SliTaz GNU/Linux virtual machine you need to configure a new virtual machine in the VirtualBox software.
22 - Run virtualbox [//Start/Programms/Oracle xVM VirtualBox/VirtualBox//].
23 - Add a new Machine: Click on [//New//] toolbar button.
24 - Click [//Next//] in the “ Create New Virtual Machine ” dialog box.
25 - Give a name to your new virtual machine ( i.e: SliTaz GNU/Linux ), and select Linux 2.6 in OS Type list and click [//Next//] .
26 - Select the amount of memory for the virtual machine. 256MB default should be sufficient.
27 - In the “ //Virtual Hard Disk// ” dialog box click on the [//Existing//] button to use your SliTaz virtual disk.
28 - The Virtual Disk Manager start. Click the [//Add//] toolbar button, locate and select the VDI file (i.e: slitaz-1.9-x86.vdi ).
29 - Click on [//Next//] and [//Finish//].
31 You can now play with your new SliTaz GNU/Linux virtual machine.
33 <note>
34 VirtualBox can use VMware virtual disks as well.
35 </note>
37 ===== Virtualbox-OSE =====
39 You can install the open source edition of virtualbox (free software) in SliTaz with the package virtualbox-ose:
40 <code>
41 # tazpkg get-install virtualbox-ose
42 </code>
43 This is a restricted version without USB support.
45 ===== Slitaz get-virtualbox =====
47 You can install virtualbox (full, but non-free version) in Slitaz with the get-virtualbox package:
48 <code># tazpkg get-install get-virtualbox ; get-virtualbox</code>
50 Other virtualization (free software) is also available such as lguest or qemu.
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53 ^ Page Review Section ^^
54 |Quality| Low |
55 |Review| Major Updates FIXME |
56 |Priority| Medium |
57 |Problems| add a [[http://forum.slitaz.org|forum post link]]|
58 |::: | OR add a [[http://labs.slitaz.org/issues |lab issue tracker link ]]|
59 |How to Improve| We have get-virtualbox pkg now? Can we remove linux-source dependency from get-virtualbox like nvidia?|
60 |:::| |
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